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MOP WRINGEB.

No. 414,628. Patented Nov. 5, 1889.

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ELIAS BEACH, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, SSIGNOR TO I-IIMSELF AND ROBERT LYIWIAN, OF SAME PLACE. Y

MOP-WRINGER.

SPECIFICATION' forming part of Letters Patent No. 414,628, dated November 5, 1889.

Application tiled May 23, 1889. Seria-l No. 311,839. (No modell) To all whom t may concern,.-

Beit known that I, ELIAS BEACH, a citizen of the United States, residing in Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Mop-Vringers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved mop-y wringer of that class in which the wringing of the mop is done by twistingthe same; and the invention consists in a flexible spiralspring band att-ached at one end to a standard and connected at the other end to a pivoted core-pin, and also in certain details of construction herein after more specifically set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, which form apart of this specification, and in which similar letters of reference indicate like parts in all the figures, FigureY l is a side view of my improved mop-wringer attached to a pail, illustrating the condition of the same when a mop is inserted ready to be wrung. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the mop in the act of wringing. Fig. 3 is a top or plan view of the pail and apparatus, and Fig. 4, is an enlarged detail view of the pivoted core-pin.

In said drawings, A represents the bucket or pail to which the wringer may be attached by means of the usual clamp device a.

B is an upright bracket attached to or cast with the bed or clamp a. This bed-piece is extended a few inches over the pailda little more than the width of an ordinary mopand at its inner extremity carries a pivoted corepin C, (shown at Fig. 4,) mounted upon the bed in such a manner as to be capable of revolution upon its pivot c.

D is a at hand, preferably made of spring brass or steel, attached at one end to the bracket B and at the other end to the lower part of the core-pin C, being given a' helical shape between these points of attachment, the focus of the helix. being the axis of the corepin. This helical band is made tapering, the broader part being attached to the bracket B and the narrower part to the corepin O. A dish-shaped plate E, the same being a lateral extension of the body-piece, partially iills the space beneath the flexible helical band to prevent the lower end of the mop, when placed within said band, from passing down so far as to be outside of the grasp 0f the same.

The operation as follows: The mop to be 5 5 wrung is hung down from its mop-stick into the embrace of the helical band, as shown at Fig. l. In this position the core-pin C will usually be within the folds of the mop-head; but sometimes the mop-head may be entirely 6o upon one side of said core-pin, owing to the accuracy or want of accuracy with which the mop-head is inserted in the wringer. If the mop-handle be now in either case twisted in Aa direction toward the focus of the helix, the 6 5 fibers or cloth of the mop will engage the band and pin, and rotating the latter will coil the band about the exterior of the inophead, wringing and compressing the same until it is sufficiently dry. The helical band 7c being secured at both ends, it is impossible that it should slip upon the mop, and thus the action of the device is always positive and certain. The tapering shape of the band,when itis wound upon the mop-head by the twisting 7 5 action above described, causes the band to very completely embrace all the parts of the mop, and particularly the lower or wetter portion of the same. The narrowest part of the band, it will be seen, is the Weakest, and 8o therefore the twist will begin at the focus of the helix first, and the force will be thus distributed throughout the whole winding equally, the force being applied successively to the portions of the band from weakest to strong- 85 c est. The core-pin gives a solid interior body, upon which the mop-head is compressed in wringing.

3. The combination, in a mopwringer, 'of roo the stationary bracket B, the pivoted core-pin C, and. the helical band D, attached to the bracket and to the core-pin, substantially as specified.'

4. The combination, in a m'op-Wringer, of the bracket B, core-pin C, helical band D, and guard-plate E, substantially as specied.

5. The mop-Wringcr consisting of a supporting-bracket, a core-pin, and a helical band, the latter being secured at its ends to 1o the bracket and pin and tapering from the end at the bracket to the end at the pin, substantially as specified.

ELIAS BEACH.

Vitnesses: V

Il. M. MUNDAY, JOHN W. MUNDAY. 

